UncannyDanny wrote:
Edna3362 wrote:
I really, really wonder what was like to actually meet another autistic.
Not someone too young -- preferably on legal age.
Not someone too incapable -- whether it's low IQ, too low EQ, or just outright not mentally and emotionally healthy.
And preferably not definitely someone too convinced to the social ideologies that most NTs are subscribed to a point of being a try-hard.
The type that's using emulation not as an interface or a facade -- but the type that are too convinced they are a broken version of a neurotypical person.
What for, Miss Edna? I thought you are an aroace? :/
What for?

For interaction and data. Curiosity.
See if the hype is true about autistic to autistic communication in this particular culture.
Because I never met another aspie who can level with me.
I never met an autistic of my own age unless they got low IQ or something -- that's just as obvious as an NT with high IQ cannot relate much with an NT of lower IQ.

For you to jump to the fact that I'm aroace implies that you assumed I got something 'romantic/sexualized' in mind. I assure you, I ain't "lonely".
I
still (and probably always) think it's bizzare, though, even after years of having to acknowledge that the adult world is very sexualized.
And that an adult mindset has a space for sexualized thoughts and intent -- which I don't.
Unless you count being too sick of putting up with accomodating human ignorance in general, sick of putting too much effort in communication and take all the blame, and not being able to relate for too long as 'lonely' or worse, in context of 'wanting to date someone'...
Sigh...
And I got like less than 40 minutes before having to go to work. Barely a time for eating and traveling.